Excuting scripts question

[Ken]

"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:3EE28A13.65FD29DD at engcorp.com...
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > > > Hi, I have a few scripts that ran well in Unix environment with:
> > > > #!/usr/local/bin/python
> > > >
> > > > What do I need to change to if I relocate these scripts on a Windows
> > > > environment? I have installed Python 2.2.3 in C:\Python22 directory.
> > >
> > Hi, I tried to run the script on IE (eg: http://192.168.0.2/test1.cgi)
but
> > it doesn't seem to load. (The script seems to load forever... but
ordinary
> > html files work)
>
> And 192.168.0.2 is your own machine?
Yes

 Do you have a web server
> running on it?
I installed IIS. (I am running Windows 2000 Pro)
I went into Control Panel/Admin Tools/Internet Information Services/Default
Web Site and go into properties. In the "Home Directory" tab, I went into
"Configuration". Clicked "Add", put in the path of python.exe executable
(C:\Python22\python.exe), extension "cgi" and pressed ok. Is this the right
way to do it? I am planning to run this Win2000 machine as a web server for
my cgi scripts that used to reside on a Unix machine. The script files and
HTML files are saved into the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot directory.

Thanks

IE does not actually execute CGI or Python or
> anything except *client-side* Javascript and Java.  If you want
> to execute CGI, you have to have a web server running, and the
> web server itself executes the CGI and returns its results to
> IE in the form of HTML.
>
> IE can handle HTML that is loaded from the local filesystem, but
> consider this to be a special feature, not something that means
> you can treat your hard drive exactly as you treat a web server.
>
> If you want to learn more, try looking at CGIHTTPServer in the
> standard library, or look into setting up another web server
> locally, perhaps ... Twisted.  :-)
>
> -Peter